Teenangels Outsiders is back to the sloppy, fun rock ‘n’ roll with the chugging Howlin Wolf riff of the Stonesy Sweet Home Suburbia, and a manic, rough-arsed MC Baby redresses the balance.
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Trying to capture this whole live feel on record is an almost impossible mountain to climb, but this 40th-anniversary edition of their 1982 sophomore album tries its best, the tight but loose approach scattered through with a little more structured moments.Ĭertainly, the opening salvo of Oriental Beat and Motorvatin’ don’t stray from the formula, the gleaming, glammy, punk ‘n’ roll full of nervous energy and short blasts of guitar and sax, but No Law Or Order takes a more Clash-like approach, its cod-reggae stylings a little hit and miss. There was a danger here that mixed the visceral excitement of those other shows with something that walked the tightrope, at one stage guitarist Andy McCoy falling in a heap after walking backwards on the stage only to trip over a crouching roadie, the six-stringer carrying on playing through his laughter. With this writer having seen their Portsmouth Polytechnic show on the first UK tour, their chaotic, loose, alcohol-fuelled performance was the thing of heady excitement, streets away from the comparatively slick and seemingly sober shows of most touring rock and Metal bands at the time. Truth be told, whilst Hanoi Rocks had flashes of The Stones, there was a lot of new wave there, and all this was shot through with glam touches, something that the Gunners would also take on, themselves inspired in part by the Fins. Despite the obvious comparisons, the music press lapped them up, lauding them as the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band since Mick and Keef’s troubadours and causing a ripple of excitement not seen again until Guns N’ Roses ripped things up a few years later.
There was always a bit of a sense of carrying coal to Newcastle when Hanoi Rocks first arrived on the British music scene, the Finnish five-piece full of the swagger of early Rolling Stones.
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